My Diverse Family
This is the family season, and we have had our fair share of family. We are what can be called a diverse bunch. My lovely little 4 year old grandson is half Chinese, one quarter Anglo/Irish and one quarter Indian/Jewish. Quite a little mixture, and he is indeed fitted well for the future, as more and more of us marry internationally. Gone is the interbreeding that went with small populations scattered over wide areas. We all now live in huge cities with all the races on the earth intermingling, sometime happily and sometime not. In our case it is happily! In fact a professional photographer has told my son that his son has a great future as a model as he has that mixed look!
This is the family season, and we have had our fair share of family. We are what can be called a diverse bunch. My lovely little 4 year old grandson is half Chinese, one quarter Anglo/Irish and one quarter Indian/Jewish. Quite a little mixture, and he is indeed fitted well for the future, as more and more of us marry internationally. Gone is the interbreeding that went with small populations scattered over wide areas. We all now live in huge cities with all the races on the earth intermingling, sometime happily and sometime not. In our case it is happily! In fact a professional photographer has told my son that his son has a great future as a model as he has that mixed look!
Oh yes that mixed look.
My other grandchildren are as equally diverse. They have my quarter of Anglo/Irish, one
quarter French/Jewish, one quarter Polish/Brazilian Jewish, and one quarter
Israeli. Although they are as equally
diverse as their cousin, they do not show it outwardly. They are very blond Aryan looking kids, which
of course couldn’t be further from the truth.
The one thing that unites all 4 (apart from family ties) is their love
of soccer! Go figure!
We have a religious diversity in our family too. Some of us are Jewish and some of us are
Christians, and some of us don’t believe in any kind of organised
religion. As none of us are fanatics
this does not cause any major issues, and indeed in this Xmas season, we shared
our Son and family who live in Sydney with his in-laws who always get first
dibs on Xmas Day. I personally am only
happy that they visit us at all, and am pretty pleased with whatever I
get. We do quite a bit of babysitting
for the diverse 4 year old, which we love, and it does leave a bit of a hole
when he moves on. Mind you it is kind of
nice to catch up on our sleep!
We don’t get to see our other grandchildren nearly as much
as they live in the States. We are in
the fortunate position of being able to afford to visit them once a year, and
usually find ourselves sweltering in Florida in August. Thank you whoever invented air conditioners! We have missed out a lot of the development
of these kids. We skip months, and
suddenly they are walking, and then they are talking, and now they are experts
on the Xbox. Our granddaughter who is
now a princess at 9 requested make up for her last birthday. Despite that she was the first one to start soccer
training and is now playing in a very competitive league. Princess she may be, but an active one at
least.
Over the years we have got to know Tampa, Florida quite well
and it has meant that we can jump out of our rut and spend time doing something
completely different. It is very
important to us that we see them at least once a year, and so far we have been
able to do so. I hope they don’t move to
Alaska!
As the family season draws to an end, I can only say how
thankful I am that fate has dealt me such a diverse crew. Viva la difference!!!!!!!
